Motivational Quotes

Work

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

- Gillis, Dobie

Best Quotes about Work

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Work is a four letter word!

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane